Customer Reviews

The Government Racket 2000: All New Washington Waste from A to Z

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Gross identifies stunning, pathetic, and gargantuan excesses by our Federal Government. Worse, he explains in terms that anyone can understand the lies and corruption of Republicans and Democrats alike to "cook the books" in their politically motivated quest to proclaim America has a "balanced budget."

Concrete descriptions of duplicate government programs and massive inefficiencies abound in the book, so much so that examples for less than a billion dollars seem inconsequential. Moreover, Gross explains many of the underlying reasons for government waste and offers various pragmatic solutions for reducing and eliminating the waste without materially impacting public services.

Everyone who votes needs to read this book and then march on Washington, 60's style, and demand massive reforms. And when better than during this, a presidential election year.

Martin Gross updates his 93 bestseller with a treasurehouse of new outrages and rock solid statistics. Read this book and then insist on givinig what you've learned to anyone that might listen. Including GWB. Don't bother sharing this with Gore voters. They enjoy being fed a diet of sewage,

Anyone that reads this and comes away sanguine about the rathole of waste and excess in Washington deserves their serfdom.

On another front, do click over to "Transfer" by Jerry Furland. Another honest author toiling in the vineyards for all of us.

This is a great book. I wish someone would actually implement even a fraction of this book. Gross has come out with several great books in this vein: Government racket 2000 and beyond, The Tax Racket, Political Racket and A Call for Revolution. Each one of them is a masterpiece and the should be required reading for every elected official in both parties. Gross has done his research and it is sad that Clinton, Bush and probably the next President won't put much, if any, into place. He shows that the budget could be balanced and our taxes could be reduced without a loss of quality of government care.

Mr. Gross, PLEASE update this book. You were ahead of your time.

To some extent this book is a re-hash of old stories about government waste,however,many are new revelations.....You may be numbed to the waste in government....But I did find it very interesting.Worth a read.Paperback price makes it appealing as well.

At this point, much of the book is outdated since the government programs have changed. However, the book still offers some good information which can be useful.

I bought this book because of the first edition published in 1993, which I used extensively in writing my cases for debate tournaments in high school. As for just regular reading material, I would not recommend it. I can not imagine just reading this book all the way through just for the fun of it, but it does make a great reference for all of those high school debaters out there looking for wasteful programs to cut to fund their cases. Outside of that, I don't see much use for the book.

Looking at the book I thought it would bring new knowledge to me, but it didn't. It was one of those books that only have one point to prove and you get their idea by the first chapter. The rest of the chapters are just a waist of time. Most of the quotes in this book don't have a source. What I mean is, if I wrote the book I could of also exaggerated the truth. The statistics could be made up and so could the quotes. Sure I hate the government as the next guy. And yes, they are pretty stupid, but this book proves nothing new! We all knew the government was bad with money and brains. Yet this book isn't changing anything. This author is a sad High School teacher. The fact that I know he's a High School teacher is because he mentions it in the middle of the book, obviously to waist more time! I never found a book to be this boring and time consuming. I used to pick up books and enjoy them. When seeing this book I just want to burn it. If anything, you should get a different book.

Looking at the book I thought it would bring new knowledge to me, but it didn't. It was one of those books that only have one point to prove and you get their idea by the first chapter. The rest of the chapters are just a waist of time. Most of the quotes in this book don't have a source. What I mean is, if I wrote the book I could of also exaggerated. The statistics could be made up and so could the quotes. Sure I hate the government as the next guy. And yes, they are pretty stupid, but this book proves nothing new! We all knew the government was bad with money and brains. Yet this book isn't changing anything. This author is a sad High School teacher. The fact that I know he's a High School teacher is because he mentions it in the middle of the book, obviously to waist more time! I never found a book to be this boring and time consuming. I used to pick up books and enjoy them. Yet, when seeing this book I just want to burn it. If anything, you should get a different book. Less than one star!